Scott Weiland’s Ex-wife: ‘We are most devastated that he chose to give up’

Mary wrote an open letter published in Rolling Stone, in which she describes the complex relationship Scott had with their kids, Noah, 15, and Lucy, 13. Mary, who married Scott in 2000 but split in 2007, tells their kids actually lost the former singer “years ago” due to his “multiple illnesses.”

“You might ask, ‘How were we to know? We read that he loved spending time with his children and that he’d been drug-free for years! ‘ In reality, what you didn’t want to acknowledge was a paranoid human who couldn’t recollect his own lyrics and who was only photographed with his children a handful of days in 15 years of fatherhood, ” Mary writes. “When writing a volume years ago, it pained me to sometimes gloss over so much heartache and fight, but I did what I thought was best for Noah and Lucy. I knew they would the working day insure and feel everything that I’d been trying to shield them from, and that they’d eventually be brave enough to say, ‘That mess was our father. We loved him, but a deep-rooted mix of love and disappointment made up the majority of our relationship with him.'”

Mary claims her children were “replaced” when Scott remarried. In 2013, the musician marriage photographer Jamie Wachtel.

“They were not invited to his bridal; child subsistence checks often never arrived, ” she claims. “Our once sweet Catholic boy refused to watch the kids participate in Christmas eve plays because he was now an atheist. They have never set foot into his home, and they can’t recollect the last period they saw him on a Father’s Day.”

“So many people have been gracious enough to praise his gift. The music is here to stay, ” Mary writes. “But at some phase, someone needs to step up and point out that yes, this will happen again — because as a society we almost encourage it. We read awful show reviews, watch videos of artists falling down, unable to recall their lyrics streaming on a teleprompter only a few feet away. And then we click ‘add to cart’ because what really belongs in a hospital is now considered art.”

Mary makes it clear that she doesn’t want fans to extol Scott’s death.

“I won’t say he can remainder now, or that he’s in a better place, ” she laments. “He belongs with his children barbecuing in the backyard and waiting for a Notre Dame game to come on. We are angry and sad about this loss, but we are most devastated that he chose to give up.”

“Let’s choose to make this the first time we don’t extol this misfortune with talk of rock and roll and the demons that, by the way, don’t have to come with it, ” she adds. “Skip the depressing T-shirt with 1967 -2 015 on it — use the money to take a kid to a ballgame or out for ice cream.”